When importing items from another course, retain the custom sort order
If you clone a course, it retains the sort order. But when a new course is created and then you try to import items from a previous course via the web, it loses the custom order.
Genie Shropshire
shared this idea
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Jessica N. Perlove
commented
I think professors expect things to be in the same order as the way they left them.
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Jenny Vitti
commented
Currently, when a new reading is added to a course where the items are already sorted, the new item goes to the top of the list. I think keeping that same function makes sense -- so whether you're adding a new individual item, cloning an individual item, or cloning a group of items, it/they would go to the top of whatever readings are already in the course.
In my experience, most instructors clone items before making changes or adding new items, but of course it's good to figure out what would happen if anyone deviates from that norm.
Best,
Jenny -
Hi folks,
I have a question about your request for improving sort order retention. If an instructor is going to clone just some items from a course, how would those items appear in the new course? Still in the same order, but at the bottom of the list? At the top?
Thanks!
Kerry -
Hannah Rogers
commented
Please make this a priority. It is very frustrating to users.
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Jenny Vitti
commented
There's also no indication on the web that reactivated items won't retain their order when they're brought into the new course, so it is confusing and frustrating when carefully ordered items don't copy over as expected.
